But not just any crab: a huge 100ft abstract concrete and metal image of two claws thrusting skyward on the cliffs overlooking
Posted in General on 30. Jul, 2010
But not just any crab: a huge 100ft abstract concrete and metal image of two claws thrusting skyward on the cliffs overlooking the town.
Last week the plan was unceremoniously dumped after being put to the vote at a special meeting of the town council, partly on the grounds that it would have been built on an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The decision has prompted an acrimonious dispute over whether the rejection of the plan amounts to a lack of artistic appreciation or a two-fingered salute to trendy modern excess.But there must be something in the air along the Norfolk coast: neighbouring Great Yarmouth, not previously noted for its cutting-edge approach to the arts, has given its blessing to a 120ft sculpture of a giant herring vertically balanced on its tail as a tribute to the town’s former fishing industry. When the citizens of Cromer set up a millennium committee to look around for ideas to mark the turn of the century, they settled on a sculpture that would reflect the town’s heritage. Cromer is, of course, noted for its crabs; so a crab, the local millennium committee decided, it would be. THIS IS a tale of a giant herring, an oversized crab and two sleepy Norfolk seaside resorts. to assure Royal Ordnance that any conflict with the UK restrictions is not being created.”A BAe spokesman added: “We are in discussion with the US Army who are well aware of our obligations under the Ottawa Convention and the UK Landmines Act We will not break the law.”. If the Americans don’t agree [to a new clause] I think BAe will have to cancel the contract.”A spokesman for the US Army said it and Royal Ordnance “are addressing any potential problems the UK constraints may have”.”In the interim,” he said, “the US Army has agreed to identify the end- use for bulk explosives …
They’re in a bind and the fact that they’re having afterthoughts suggests they recognise that. Avon and Somerset Police have already forwarded a file for investigation by Customs and Excise after a complaint from the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, the leading organisation opposed to the production and use of landmines.Nick Harvey, MP, the Liberal Democrats’ campaign and communications chair, who has criticised BAe for failing to make it clear that RDX was not to be used in the production of landmines, said: “BAe is entirely at the mercy of US policy. The move has been prompted by an exclusive report by the Independent on Sunday in June that the subsidiary, Royal Ordnance, is exporting RDX, an ingredient commonly used in landmines, to the United States.
Royal Ordnance has a five-year contract worth $88m (pounds 55m) to be the US Army’s sole supplier of RDX and is exporting 40 per cent of the explosives from its factory at Bridgwater in Somerset.Royal Ordnance also has a 25-year contract to operate the Army ammunition plant in Holston, Tennessee, the only American plant capable of manu- facturing RDX and the source of explosives used in millions of American mines.The Landmines Act, passed by Parliament last year, makes the manufacture of anti-personnel mines or their components an offence punishable by up to 14 years in jail and/or an unlimited fine. A SUBSIDIARY of British Aerospace, the UK’s biggest weapons manufacturer, is trying to renegotiate a contract to supply explosives to the American army in an effort to prevent their use in anti-personnel mines. It will descend to the surface of the red planet from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express satellite, which is already scheduled to start orbiting the planet in 2003.. It would also be the finest tribute to the late Eugene Shoemaker, a leading planetary geologist whose ashes were on board the probe and landed in their final resting place yesterday.Scientists such as Shoemaker believed that ice from comets that crashed into the Moon over many thousands of years may have avoided evaporation in the permanent shade of the polar craters, where temperatures never rise above -200C.n Britain is to launch a space probe to investigate whether there is life on Mars, it emerged last night. “I am happy to stick my neck out and say that there is no water there.
There is hydrogen but no water.”Finding water would raise the prospect of Moon bases and the manned exploration of the solar system. It may be the probe did not heat up the ice cap enough or crashed in an area where there was not enough water.”David Goldstein, a University of Texas scientist observing from the McDonald Observatory in west Texas, said no signs of impact were detected by telescopes focused on the lunar south pole.”Prospector has done all it could and it has been a wonderful success, but all the lunar rocks which have been brought back have not shown any signs of water,” he said.But the astronomer Patrick Moore was even more pessimistic “I never thought there would be water on the Moon I do not believe in lunar ice,” he said. “If we get the plume then we know there is water, but if we don’t, it doesn’t rule out the possibility. He said it may be days before scientists can establish the mission’s success. That is an amazing achievement.” But elated though the space scientists were, the early indications that there is no water was described by a Nasa official as “a bit of a disappointment”.The mission to crash the 157kg Lunar Prospector into a 25-mile-wide crater near the Moon’s south pole 240,000 miles from Earth had less than a 10 per cent chance of success, according to a Nasa spokesman.
But there was none.
The probe, travelling at 3,800mph, crashed into a crater at 10.52am yesterday, said Nasa spokesman, David Morse. “All the data suggests the probe didn’t hit the rim of the crater or miss it altogether, so we are confident it crashed in it. Scientists were hoping the impact would throw up a huge plume of dust and vapour, indicating the presence of water. SPACE scientists have all but ruled out the possibility of human settlement on the Moon in the foreseeable future, following yesterday’s successful crash-landing of the Lunar Prospector space probe. It is no good labelling these treatments as mumbo jumbo when a large number of patients use them.”Professor Jordan said that even when there was no scientific evidence that a therapy was helping, doctors needed to recognise that it could still provide psychological support.However he drew a distinction between treatments such as osteopathy, which have made a successful transition from fringe to mainstream, and therapies that could harm the patient.The emphasis at Newcastle, as at Birmingham and Manchester medical schools which also teach complementary medicine, is on evidence-based learning where students can evaluate the effects of different treatments on individual patients and make up their own minds about what works.The shift towards a more patient-centred approach has already seen universities expand their remit to cover public health issues and community-based work.At the joint Leicester and Warwick medical school, students spend a proportion of their course in a one-stop inner-city GP surgery, which combines healthcare facilities with childcare, a cafe, police station and housing and social services.They can also study art therapy, and this autumn the school will open the first fast-track four year medical degree for biological sciences graduates.. According to researchers at Exeter University, as many as 40 per cent of GP practices in England now provide massage, osteopathy, homeopathy and acupuncture treatments for conditions such as asthma, skin complaints and back pain.”An increasing number of patients are turning to alternative practitioners and doctors need to be aware of what these therapies entail so they can advise their patients from a position of strength,” said Professor Reg Jordan, director of medical studies at Newcastle University.”Doctors have to respect their patients’ healthcare beliefs. Working under supervision in acupuncture and osteopathic clinics, the students will help diagnose and discuss treatments for patients.The medical schools are taking their lead from GPs.
Students will swap stethoscopes and thermometers for acupuncture needles and homeopathic kits and spend time doing “hands on” work with patients .
Newcastle is the first university to make complementary medicine compulsory although several universities are setting up study options in treatments such as osteopathy, homeopathy and hypnosis.All medical students at Newcastle will have an introduction to the subject, with the chance to take a seven-week course on the mysteries of pressure points, hypnosis and spinal manipulation techniques. Once they have been completed, the findings will be made public.”A number of those who have made allegations have themselves just been the subject of a vote of no confidence by colleagues.”. TRAINEE DOCTORS are to study New Age therapies as a compulsory part of their medical training. Once derided as crackpot, alternative medicine is to become de rigueur in medical schools.